I do not believe VLSHRT requires NOBLKSET. I would try removing NOBLKSET from the sort and try again.
Have a nice day, Dave Betten DFSMS Performance Engineer IBM Corporation email: [email protected] DFSORT/MVSontheweb at http://www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort/ IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on 07/18/2012 07:48:25 AM: > From: "O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected], > Date: 07/18/2012 07:48 AM > Subject: DFSORT option NOBLKSET? > Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> > > We are in the process of migrating dasd and I thought I would > convert from Mod-9s to Mod-27s as part of the process. We just had a > sort blow up due to the application coding option NOBLKSET. > > CONTROL STATEMENTS FOR 5694-A01, Z/OS DFSORT V1R10 - > SORT FIELDS=(39,40,CH,A) > OPTION VLSHRT,DYNALLOC=(SYSDA,12),NOBLKSET > > ICE285A J BLOCKSET IS REQUIRED FOR WORK DATA SETS ON VOLUMES WITH > MORE THAN 17476 CYLINDERS > > Fortunately the global option is BLKSET, so the general user > community seems to be unaffected. > > User also specified VLSHRT which seems to require NOBLKSET. > > The application is CIMS. Are there any users of CIMS out there who > could shed some light on why VLSHRT is required? > Thank You, > Dave O'Brien > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
